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JavaScript JavaScript Basics (Retired) Storing and Tracking Information with Variables Capturing Visitor Input and Writing It to the Page

Posted by Cortney Scott
Cortney Scott
3,158 Points

Im not understanding why it wont accept this answer? 'what day is it?' is inside the prompt

var answer = prompt("what day is it?");

scripts.js 
var answer = prompt("what day is it?");
index.html 
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <title>JavaScript Basics</title>
</head>
<body>
<script src="scripts.js"></script>
</body>
</html>

1 Answer

andren
andren
28,558 Points
andren
andren
28,558 Points

The code checker for these challenges is often extremely picky when it comes to how you write the strings it asks for. In this case the problem is that it expects the first letter of What to be capitalized. Since you have not capitalized it your code is marked as wrong.

If you fix that by simply capitalizing it like this:

var answer = prompt("What day is it?");

Then you will be able to move onto task 3.